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Big Stu-ey: Winning the US Open (w/ Wyndham Clark) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: The first time we had this man on, he had
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  Speaker 1: no majors. It was right before he won his first
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  Speaker 1: US Open. Mikey remembers, he's shaking his head. Wyndham Clark,
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  Speaker 1: if I took congratulations. By the way, if I told
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  Speaker 1: you then that in twenty twenty six, i'd speak to
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  Speaker 1: you again and you'd be a two tome US Open champion,
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  Speaker 1: you would have told me what it's about.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's what I hope and dream for. But no,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's uh, I mean you dream for that,
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  Speaker 2: but for it to come it become reality is you know,
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  Speaker 2: is a different thing.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's it's pretty special. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Can you explain to us and the audience I played
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  Speaker 1: that course, shinnecock, It's tricky, it's difficult. I shot at
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and I walked away with a smile on
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  Speaker 1: my face. Can you explain to the audience and to
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  Speaker 1: us just how difficult that course is?
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I would smile if I shot two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: You probably would have lost on Sunday, Yes, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you need a lot bigger lead.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, no, so it is so challenging.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was pretty wide off the tee, so
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  Speaker 2: that part wasn't the hardest, you know, granted I missed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fairways, so didn't make it look that easy.
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  Speaker 2: But the first two days I hit a bunch. It's
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  Speaker 2: really the greens, the greens in the wind. It's you know,
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  Speaker 2: the wind was blown twenty plus sometimes even thirty plus
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  Speaker 2: kind of the whole week. And then you get these
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  Speaker 2: greens that are just diabolical. They have so much slope
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  Speaker 2: and if you miss it goes so far off and
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  Speaker 2: you have such challenging shot. And then the Poeana you know,
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  Speaker 2: in Poeana, if you guys know, especially on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 2: it's bumpy and it's difficult to you know, have a putt,
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  Speaker 2: stay online consistently, and so it just it just makes
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  Speaker 2: for you know, max stress while you're playing. You might
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  Speaker 2: hit a great shot in there and you can walk
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  Speaker 2: away with bogie, or you hit a great chip and
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  Speaker 2: you might miss, or you might three put multiple holes
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  Speaker 2: in a row.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's so difficult.
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  Speaker 4: Do you prefer when the course is that difficult, or
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  Speaker 4: like where only so many people are even below par?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you like when you're all chasing the same numbers?
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  Speaker 3: You know what's funny is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yes, I've always preferred tougher and prior to
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  Speaker 2: win in the CJ Cup this year. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: hardly ever shoot in the twenties. I've maybe shot twenty
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  Speaker 2: under less than like eight times in my career, and
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  Speaker 2: then I shot thirty under. So normally I'm like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't really don't have much of a chance in those
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  Speaker 2: events because I I'm kind of a guy that shoots
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  Speaker 2: a lot of four to six hunders and sometimes goes
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  Speaker 2: super low. But yeah, I prefer I love when you
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  Speaker 2: have to really think in all parts of your game
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  Speaker 2: has to be utilized, and especially the short game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's really where I excel is getting the ball up
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  Speaker 2: and down, making clutch putts, having good speed on lag puts,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. So I do prefer kind of the major
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  Speaker 2: style golf for or when courses are super tough.
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  Speaker 5: When I'm curious the wire to wire win, Like take
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  Speaker 5: me through the mentality of that, like at what point
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  Speaker 5: are you recognizing where you're at? At what point does
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  Speaker 5: the stress start to come in?
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  Speaker 1: And then when you.
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  Speaker 5: Complete it, it's just like what what is the mentality there?
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  Speaker 5: And just however, you know, satisfying that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, after what, this is my eighth season
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  Speaker 2: leading the first round. I've I've had a handful of
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  Speaker 2: tournaments where I've done that, so you're just like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: first round. We also didn't get to finish it, so
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  Speaker 2: I had to come back super early. We were up
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  Speaker 2: at four am, so you almost had no time to
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  Speaker 2: even think. And then you know, we finish out Friday
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  Speaker 2: and I end up with four shot lead I believe
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  Speaker 2: going into Saturday or three shot or something, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and then and then you know.
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  Speaker 3: On Friday night you think about it.
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  Speaker 2: I had a long time before I played in the
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  Speaker 2: afternoon on Saturday, actually super long, and it's more the
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  Speaker 2: anticipation than anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I ended on one pm Friday, and I didn't play
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  Speaker 2: till three forty five, so I had over twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 2: and you just get antsy. You're like, man, I just
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  Speaker 2: want to get out there. I just want to play.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the worst part. But once you get inside
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  Speaker 2: the ropes, you start feeling comfortable and you get exciting
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  Speaker 2: or excited. The biggest struggle for me going from Saturday
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  Speaker 2: Sunday was the fact that I really thought I could
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  Speaker 2: be at ten or eleven or twelve under, and I
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  Speaker 2: was really frustrated that I made some bogies coming in
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  Speaker 2: on fifteen and sixteen, and I made two bogies with
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  Speaker 2: wedges in my hand, and I just look at that
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, gosh, I could have a nine to
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  Speaker 2: ten shot lead.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, even.
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  Speaker 2: Though I had six shot lead, which is amazing, I
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  Speaker 2: knew I was going to need every shot possible to
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  Speaker 2: try to win on Sunday because it's hard to go
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  Speaker 2: wire to wire, especially against the best player in the
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  Speaker 2: world in a hostile environment.
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  Speaker 1: How much impact did that have on you, The fact
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  Speaker 1: that you were paired with Scott in that final round.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it, you know, Scotty and our buddies, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fun because he brings the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest crowds and it just makes it more exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday was kind of weird, to be honest, there that
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  Speaker 2: we started with a lot of fans and then we
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  Speaker 2: ended hardly with any fans the last like five six holes,
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  Speaker 2: and it.
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  Speaker 3: Was kind of yeah, it just was unique.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't have that major feeling maybe on a Saturday
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  Speaker 2: as normal, and then Sunday really felt like that and
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  Speaker 2: part of that's Scottie, and you know everyone was following
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  Speaker 2: us and watching us, and that just makes it more fun.
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  Speaker 2: I love to compete. I played other sports. I love
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  Speaker 2: watching other sports, and you always you always want.
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  Speaker 3: The ball in your hand. You want to be in
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  Speaker 3: the moment, and that's exactly what that was.
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  Speaker 4: I win to My challenge as a golfer is I
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  Speaker 4: let a bad hole keep beating me as I go
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  Speaker 4: on to the next hole. What's the mental challenge of
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  Speaker 4: watching a six shot lead on Sunday shrink to just
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  Speaker 4: a single shot in just five holes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean we've all done it.
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  Speaker 2: We've all.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's affected me too.
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  Speaker 2: I actually didn't really know it got to a one
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  Speaker 2: shot lead that quickly. I did, let's say, kind of
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  Speaker 2: as we're making the turn, and I started watching the
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  Speaker 2: leaderboard kind of the last five six holes, so I
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  Speaker 2: was trying to not pay attention as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Granted I did know things weren't going my way. I
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  Speaker 2: was three over relatively quick, and I'm like, that can't
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  Speaker 2: be good. If anyone's under part at all, this is
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  Speaker 2: a close match, and the fans definitely let me know,
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  Speaker 2: so I yeah, I tried as much as possible to
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  Speaker 2: try to stay in the present moment and worry about myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to rationalize bad behavior. I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to explain it, and I want to see if you
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  Speaker 1: agree as it relates to the fans, because they were awful.
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  Speaker 1: But fans are awful, that's what they are. What fans
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  Speaker 1: are rooting for in that spot. We don't particularly have
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  Speaker 1: particularly have a favorite golfer, right, We're just rooting for
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  Speaker 1: an exciting end, and you were getting in the way
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  Speaker 1: of an exciting ending and fans wanted to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that fair? Is that rationalizing? What am I doing there?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that's really at the you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the core of why fans are acting the way they act.
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  Speaker 3: Are you from Long Island?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? He actually is.
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  Speaker 3: That question.
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  Speaker 1: They're terrible fans win them. I'm just trying to justify it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to explain it. I mean, I'm just now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, we're a bunch of assholes out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you know, I there's definitely some of that.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if if if the super Bowl someone's up
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  Speaker 2: by twenty some points, it's it loses it's it's team.
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  Speaker 3: So I get some of that, but it's you know, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was unfortunate because I'm trying to do something thing that
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  Speaker 2: is life changing from me and something I've always dreamt of.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, you know what, I embraced it. I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I love New York. I hope they love me now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but no, that that's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Long Island. Listen, you have the trophy sitting
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  Speaker 1: right behind you. You're good man, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I find it funny in these individual sports where you
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  Speaker 5: have this major career accomplishment, but the season keeps going,
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  Speaker 5: and so I'm just wondering, is there anything you do.
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  Speaker 5: Is there anything about once you win a major that
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  Speaker 5: you do differently that you actually let it sink in
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  Speaker 5: somehow celebrate in the course of, you know, the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the hardest thing about golf and
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  Speaker 2: tennis is I mean, I'm playing this week in Connecticut
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  Speaker 2: at the Travelers. You know, it's like you in this
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  Speaker 2: huge major tournament and back inside.
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  Speaker 3: The ropes on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: But the biggest thing is you kind of wait till
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  Speaker 2: the off season, and so when I'm home, I'll take
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  Speaker 2: it to my home clubs that I play in Arizona
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  Speaker 2: and in Colorado, I'll be with my buddy, will go celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: You bring the trophy everywhere, So that's kind of when
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  Speaker 2: you celebrate. But you know, this one, the first one
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  Speaker 2: I won, I kind of not that I took it
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  Speaker 2: for granted, but I kind of did like I thought, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm now just gonna win a ton, and I kind
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  Speaker 2: of broke through this is gonna happen. And then you realize,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a year goes by, you don't win it,
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  Speaker 2: and then I have a terrible year in twenty five
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, wow, what I did was amazing, and
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  Speaker 2: so to win this the second time, I'm really gonna
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  Speaker 2: cherish this and soak it in and let you know,
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  Speaker 2: just let all those feelings feed my confidence, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just remember that I've done something that not many people
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  Speaker 2: have done.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a moving moment after you won on
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  Speaker 1: the eighteenth hole, you didn't know your dad was there.
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  Speaker 1: You turn around and there's dad on Father's Day? Can
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  Speaker 1: you put us there? What a special moment for you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my dad hasn't been able to see me
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  Speaker 2: win in person. In a long time, and so for
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  Speaker 2: him to be there on Father's Day, I had zero idea.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was fun.
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  Speaker 2: Some friends surprised me, and you know, that's really cool
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot. But I really didn't know my dad was there.
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  Speaker 2: So when I turned around, you know, I saw he
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  Speaker 2: was emotional. We both were emotional, and to share that
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  Speaker 2: moment with my dad is something I'll remember for the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Of my life.
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  Speaker 4: So cool Windam, What's what's going through your head when
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  Speaker 4: you sink that putt on sixteen Because the hole started
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  Speaker 4: way off in the fescue and then you hit that
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  Speaker 4: unbelievable recovery shot on two, and then the birdie putt
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  Speaker 4: felt like it could have slipped away from you, but
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  Speaker 4: then you drained it. And then from that point on
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  Speaker 4: it was like, Okay, this is this is your tournament
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  Speaker 4: to lose.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it. It definitely. The hole didn't start good,
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  Speaker 3: it ended ended really good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that putt was definitely the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: key that that kind of closed the deal. Even though
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  Speaker 2: I bogied seventeen right after, I at least knew on eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: barring something crazy, I'm gonna have a putt to win
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  Speaker 2: the US Open, and that putt was It's one of
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  Speaker 2: those moments I've always wanted, is a kind of a
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  Speaker 2: long putt that kind of solidifies or you know, gives
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  Speaker 2: you that Tiger esque moment. And you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the Tiger roar that maybe he normally gets. I
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  Speaker 2: had the deafening silence, but I gave out my roar,
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  Speaker 2: So it.
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  Speaker 1: Was pretty ful. Long Islanders man.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Stuce said that people don't have favorite golfers.
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  Speaker 1: That's not true anymore. No, no, no, no, no. We have
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  Speaker 1: favorite golfers. But even like Phil Mickelson in his prime
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  Speaker 1: was my favorite golfer. But when Lefty was leading a major, Windom,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm trying to say. I would roof for
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  Speaker 1: him to get a double bogie if it meant we
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  Speaker 1: were going to have a close ending.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm going to try to drop that Windom
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  Speaker 5: is my favorite golfer now, him and Cam younger guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I was trying to drop in there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still trying to rationalize bad behavior. Wyndham real quick on
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  Speaker 1: the way out here. PGA Tour made some big announcements today,
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  Speaker 1: new rules, two tours, essentially very very cool. What do
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  Speaker 1: you make of all this?
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love what Brian roll Like and their team is doing.
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  Speaker 2: They you know, they are continuing to try to make
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  Speaker 2: golf and the PGA Tour the best that it possibly
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  Speaker 2: can be, and I think the future looks bright for golf.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I think it's growing at every level. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you see guys like Lebron James and Kevin Hard and
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  Speaker 2: you know even you know, diplomats and men, women, all
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  Speaker 2: playing the game of golf, and it's so exciting. And
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  Speaker 2: I think what they're doing is making it easier for
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  Speaker 2: people to understand golf at the professional level. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to add tons of meritocracy to the game
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  Speaker 2: and I think ultimately more exciting. So I love what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. I'm excited for it and I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: for twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, congratulations to you a two time
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  Speaker 1: US Open champion. We appreciate your time, and I apologize
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of everyone who lives on Long Island.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, including yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, including mostly myself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm getting thanks guys. It's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations see you man, I'm glad you got to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: that with D. That was cool man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, all right, bud it